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Featured New BooksWell, talented family members have been at the old book writing lark again and this time it's Vidyamala Burch, Pippas sister and another of Bobs lovely daughters.
$45.00 Vidyamala Burch has suffered with chronic pain for over 30 years due to congenital weakness, a car accident and unsuccessful surgery. She is now a wheelchair user. In this positive and reassuring new book, she identifies that it is our resistance to pain which causes it to be so distressing and miserable. We don't want it to be happening to us, and we wish we weren't experiencing it. Living Well with Pain & Illness is a practical guide to living with and managing chronic pain through the principle of mindfulness. By developing a calm awareness of your body and your pain, you can learn to let go of the frustration and suffering that you associate the pain with, and the pain will reduce. Vidyamala Burch uses easy-to follow breathing techniques and powerful mindfulness meditations which teach you how to live in the present moment. Living Well with Pain & Illness includes helpful illustrations, offers effective ways of managing chronic pain and is a must-read for all sufferers. |
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9 November 2006
(Model not included) Space:The Ultimate Frontier is a spectacular 60 cm high by 43 cm wide book that every space enthusiast should own. (Or in fact if you have an irrational desire to play really inventive hide and seek you would also like this book.) This book contains information on every manned spaceflight from the Russians, Americans, the Chinese and the commercial sector through to the STS-114, Return to Flight mission on July 26, 2005. This is a great book, and you definately get your moneys worth in pictures and size alone.
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(Model not included) In Millitary Aircraft in Flight Michael Sharpe examines the developement of airbourne warfare from the earliest days over the World War I battlefields of northern Europe to the dramatic technological developements achieved through the inter war period, and the parrallel evolution of the airbourne arms of the military forces of the world. Like the companion volume Space:The Ultimate Frontier this volume is packed from cover to cover with enormous photos and detailed reference information.
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"Rainforests is a lavish pictorial coverage of some of the most beautiful jungle locations in the world, their environment, flora and fauna - and humans' impact upon them." This is a really amazing photographic reference book and also a very large book at 30 cm high by 43 cm wide and 256 pages. We have also had other titles in this series including Deserts, Oceans, Mapping the World, The Frozen World
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This is a really amazing photographic reference book and also a very large book at 30 cm high by 43 cm wide and 256 pages. We have also had other titles in this series including Deserts, Rainforests - A Panoramic Vision, Mapping the World, The Frozen World
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"Join Chairman Miaow and his kitten comrades as they try to make the Great Leap Forward. Combines genuine Communist Party posters from the People's Republic with specially commissioned artwork to create a subtle blend of radical sloganeering and ickle wickle pussycats. Discover for the first time Miaow's radical views on imperialism, feudalism, capitalism and squeaky mice. You too can support Miaow's work and ensure that the evil imperialist forces of President Woof are banished from the stage of world history by buying this book. This is the perfect (dare I say it, it is after all only October) Christmas Stocking filler. (Ok. So I said the dreaded 'C' word, sorry.) Actually it really is the perfect present for the art loving, cat loving, dog hating, communist/socialist cynic in your life - and I know we all have one of those hidden somewhere in all our families. We got a couple of these in 18 months ago, and have sold hundreds since then. Literally. This is one of our best selling titles of the last two years, so the hundreds of peasant workers of Wellington and beyond (you know who you are) can't be wrong! Dan Brown move aside, it's obvious the masses have an inexhaustible enthusiasm for socialism and rabbit flavoured catlick!
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The Premium Beer Drinker's Guide is a beer guide like no other. Focused purely upon the elite styles of the world of beer -- exotic and mysterious brews like Trappist Ale, Lambic Gueuze, Doppelbock, Imperial Stout and Barley Wine -- it introduces beer lovers to some of the most intense, complex, potent and remarkable brews on the market today. Never before has one book provided beer drinkers with so much useful information about the world of premium beer. Premium Beer Drinker's Guide:
This book makes fascinating reading for anyone who enjoys the finer things of life. It is also an invaluable guide to shopping for beer and for serving these wonderful brews to friends. |
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4th September 2006 Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, Accurately Restored & Described by Tony Di Terlizzi and Holly Black, $35.00
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (Boxed set including all five volumes: The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda's Secret, The Ironwood Tree & The Wrath of Mulgarath) by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony Di Terlizza. $70.00 |
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So you've read the Harry Potter to the rug rats and now they are clamoring for more. Ahh, dilemma of dilemmas, what to do... The volumes follow the adventures of the Grace children, 9 year old twins Jared and Simon and their older sister Mallory after they move to live into their elderly (and apparently insane) Great Aunt Lucinda's house in the country. It's essentially one story, broken up into five episodes for bite size reading sessions, but the story flows nicely, the characters are likable and relevant to children, both boys and girls, and the illustrations throughout the five volumes (in colour plates and black & white line drawings within the text) are beautiful and add to the pleasure of reading the books. In fact the quality of the books are beautiful - bound in a similar fashion to the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events in small hardback editions with old fashioned rough cut page edging. The books feel real, like shiny versions of something you might inherit from Nana, adding to the illusion of the story itself, that this is something real, something secret you've stumbled across, just like Jared did in the attic. And then as a delicious side dish there is also the Field Guide itself. There are 121 pages including quite a few foldout pages and the accompanying text includes a lot of very useful information.
Full colour fold-out page from Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, featuring the Cockatrice (Family: Serpentigentidae) or Common Basilisk. FYI - Don't look the Cockatrice in the eye if you have plans for the weekend. Or in fact if you have any plans that don't involve standing around for a very long time in one place. |
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Living Well with Pain & Illness - The Mindful Way the Free Yourself From Suffering
9 November 2006
9 November 2006
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